SLITHER, n.--another word with two (or 1.5) mommies?

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> Maybe I've just led a sheltered life (as has the AHD, which only has
> "slithery movement or gait" for SLITHER, n.).


Or maybe the writers are black.

Youneverknow.

After all, the woman who wrote of of the need to "purchase him a pair of
stomps" was neither black nor Southern nor even from the mainland.

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-Wilson
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